Lot Essay
A covered example is illustrated in Mayuyama Seventy Years, vol. I, no. 773; and another in the Freer Gallery of Art is illustrated in Oriental Ceramics, vol. 9, pl. 101. A further dou and cover in the Shanghai Museum is illustrated in Underglaze Blue and Red, pl. 68. See also the example in the National Palace Museum, Taibei, Blue and White Ware of the Ming Dynasty, Book II, pl. 13; the Percival David Foundation stembowl, Catalogue, Section 3, pl. X, no. 636; and D'Argence, Chinese Ceramics in the Avery Brundage Collection, pl. Lb. An example from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, is illustrated in the Catalogue, pl. 219. Another in the British Museum is illustrated in Oriental Ceramics, The World's Great Collections, vol. 5, fig. 165.